Farmers union urges cooperative laws for farming interests
Fort Worth Texas farmers union pushes for legislation to regulate and promote farming interests. W D Lewis president and Peter Radford ex-president urge a code of cooperative laws to unite farmers with railroads merchants and industry. They argue producers lack protection and market power while other sectors receive swift government support.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Farmers’ Union
Egypt
Weather Bureau
Na- Gon
W. D. Lewis
Peter Radford
Who Told the Truth
A young mother and a journalist meet in a subway and recall their school friendship now torn by careers in motherhood and journalism. The mother praises the journalist but the guard interrupts with Grand Central Station as they part, leaving the question of truth unresolved.
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Billy
Caild
Perdons
Grand Central Station
Goodby
Damascus the Eternal City of Ancient Worlds
The article declares Damascus as an ancient, unbroken city from Abram’s era and Egyptian times, older than Greece and Rome. It contrasts Damascus with Babylon and Tyre, notes its persistence through wars, and describes a bustling market with Persians, Moors, Afghans, Indians, Egyptians, Sudanese, Jews, Bedouins, Druses, and Turks amid crooked narrow streets and striking yet decay in residences.
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Damascus
Abram
Haran
Egypt
Greece
Rome
Babylon
Tyre
Chris
An Herald
Elephants and Their Young on Kilimanjaro Mount
An Outing excerpt notes how a non professional hunter killed elephants on Kilimanjaro and describes a scene where a calf was pinned beneath its mother’s fallen knee. The account questions how elephants care for young and implies the calf may have been hidden by the mother’s tracks or trunk as the herd moved.
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Mount Kenia
Kilimanjaro
Try, Try Again in Pursuit of Success
We echo the idea that failure is not final and emphasize persistence across many lines of work. Prominent figures prove success comes from trying anew in a chosen field even when initial belief in ability is weak. Find your place and strive until achievement is recognized.
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Phil
Hay
Sandisuer
Blue Eyed Men and Women: A Portrait of Temperament
The text describes blue eyed individuals as self controlled, cold, austere, and precise. It characterizes men as intellectually firm and dominant in moral, intellectual, and industrial realms, and hints at mating dynamics with a blue eyed partner.
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Ie Wue
Portage Railroad Car Pioneered 1823 travel in Allegheny mountains
The Philadelphia Record recalls the 1823 Portage railroad opening from Hollidaysburg to Johnstown, a 36 mile line with ten inclined planes, tunnels, and steep grades. Passengers moved from canal boats to rail cars at Hollidaysburg and onward to Pittsburgh, with later cars built to disassemble for mountain transit. Early travelers faced great hardship, a stark contrast to modern delays.
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Union
Philadelphia
Portage Railroad
Allegheny Mountains
Hollidaysburg
Johnstown
Pittsburgh
Clipping File Worth Much to the Chief Mechanic
A New York railroad division chief mechanic extols disciplined study and a private clipping file. He explains clipping and indexing important periodicals aids future reference, saving time and effort, and stresses daily reading as essential to advancing in his line.
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New York
The Morbid Curiosity At A Murder Trial
A quoted New York Tribune take on crowds at a murder trial and the urge to stare at disturbing scenes. The passage argues most people resist such impulses yet acknowledge morbid curiosity exists even among well meaning individuals.
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New York Tribune
Peculiar Slang for Hats Traced to Hebrew Roots
The piece catalogues hat slang such as cady with alleged Hebrew origin used in Whitechapel England, citing an 1836 song lyric. It lists numerous synonyms including byne and many colorful terms like muffin cap, mushroom, pill box, stove pipe, and thatch.
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Whitechapel
London
David
Goss
Borax Water for Stains
A simple borax solution cleans light cloth gowns. Dissolve a teaspoon of borax in a pint of hot water and rub fresh stains with a cotton absorbent wet with the solution. It removes dust mud and perspiration stains and leaves no ugly ring unlike gasoline or naphtha.
Paper wraps provisions with ink-free sheets in Eberswalde
The Eberswalde newspaper proprietor prints the General Anzeiger on one ink free side twice a week so readers can wrap provisions without ink contamination. The issue is double the usual size on those days, preserving reading matter for the public.
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Eberswalde
Berlin
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